Monthly Archives: May 2018

Team Unicorn’s Seigo Asada led from the front as he and Haruki Muramatsu saw off Austria in the big shock on the opening night of the World Cup of Darts in Frankfurt.

It was a thriller, going all the way to a deciding leg, and Asada was sensational.

He hit four 180s and a 177 and finished superbly as they toppled Mensur Suljovic and Zoran Lerchbacher. It should have been more comprehensive. Japan missed three darts for a 4-1 lead after a hat-trick of Asada 180s.

Muramatsu missed a dart at the bull to wrap up a 5-3 victory and Suljovic led the fightback to force a dramatic decider.

Japan had the darts but it looked like being Austria’s night when Mensur hit a maximum. But not a bit of it.....Asada found another brilliant 180 in reply then hit the winning D10.

They will now face Canada.

Scotland produced a top performance as Unicorn star Gary Anderson teamed up with Peter Wright as the pair overcame a potentially tricky test beating

Team Unicorn starlet Ted Evetts has claimed another PDC title.

He won a PDC Unicorn Development Tour event in Hildesheim over the weekend to further boost his darting stock.

In a superb performance, Evetts lost only 10 legs in seven matches as he swept to victory in Development Tour 8, beating Geert Nentjes 5-2 in the final.

It’s a second title of the year for Evetts who won on the PDC Unicorn Challenge Tour in March, and he is now in second spot on the Development Tour Order of Merit.

Evetts also reached the quarter-finals of event 7, as did Dimitri van den Bergh! Fair play to the Unicorn star who travelled to play the weekend in Hildesheim after his heroics at the German Darts Masters.

There were four different winners over the two days of competition. Austria’s Rowby-John Rodriguez, Kenny Neyens of Belgium and England’s Luke Humphries joined Evetts with PDC Unicorn titles.

Unicorn new boy Jeffrey de Zwaan reached the last

Team Unicorn ace Dimitri van den Bergh reached his first senior PDC final at the German Darts Masters.

But after amazing victories over Michael van Gerwen and Gary Anderson, he couldn’t get over the line on a record breaking day as he lost the final 8-2 to Mensur Suljovic in front of a World record 20,000 crowd at the Veltins Arena.

However, the PDC Unicorn World Youth Champion can still be extremely proud of his achievements.

“I guess I just ran out of gas in the final,” he said. “But it has been one of the best days of my life. To beat Michael and Gary for the first time and to do it in front of this crowd was unreal. This is a catalyst for me. I want more.”

Sadly, he just couldn’t get going in the final and was 5-1 down very quickly as Suljovic nailed some superb check-outs.....109, 100 and 80. The Austrian hit eight doubles from 12 attempts in his semi-final win over Peter Wright and he was 8/13 against Van den Bergh.

Gary Anderson shrugged off the disappointment of Premier League Finals Night to claim a fifth title of the year.

The Unicorn star won Players Championship 11 in Milton Keynes on Saturday as he beat young German Gabriel Clemens 6-5 in a thrilling final.

Gary bounced back in style after his semi-final loss to Michael Smith at the O2 to take a third Players Championship victory of 2018.

Anderson said: “To be honest I was going to go home after Thursday night but decided to play and I nicked it in the end. It was a tough old day and, in the end, a good result for the old man! I guess I needed that.”

The Scot won the quarter-final, semi-final and final in last leg deciders. It was a classy performance from a class act.

He averaged 107 in beating Adrian Lewis in the quarter-finals and Darren Webster in the semi-finals.

And the Scot came back superbly to beat the German in the final. He was 1-4 down but fought back to level. Clemens took

Unicorn ace Michael Smith was beaten in the final of the Premier League in London.

Michael van Gerwen won the title for a fourth time and a third consecutive year with an 11-4 victory over Smith at the O2.

Smith was up against an inspired Van Gerwen as the Dutchman so nearly broke the world record for the highest average in the final of a TV ‘Major’. He averaged 112.37. In the 2015 Masters Final, Van Gerwen averaged 112.49

But the Team Unicorn star can still be mighty proud of his Premier League season. He has grown up as a man and as a darts player. His consolation is the biggest pay cheque of his career - £120,000 - and by reaching the final, he has also guaranteed his place at the 2018 Grand Slam of Darts.

“I guess I ran out of steam in the final. Ultimately I am disappointed not to go on and win because I played really well all night. But Michael played like a World No.1 and that was incredible!”

“I have to